Free Event: TPP Out of the Shadows

TPP Out of the Shadows —What they won't
tell us and why we should be worried

On 27
November www.itsourfuture.org.nz will host three
of the world's foremost critical voices on international
free trade and investment agreements to explain potential
impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
(TPPA).

The free event TPP Out of the Shadows
—What they won't tell us and why we should be worried
will be held at 6pm, Tuesday 27 November at Loaves and
Fishes Hall, in the Wellington
Cathedral.

Lori Wallach (Public
Citizen), Sanya Reid Smith (Third World
Network), and Professor Jane Kelsey
(University of Auckland) will deliver presentations
and take questions on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Agreement (TPPA), a treaty being negotiated in secret
between the United States, New Zealand, and 9 other
countries on the Asia-Pacific rim.

The TPPA is one the
biggest political issues facing New Zealand, it involves
eleven Asian and Pacific-rim countries — including the
United States — and it being negotiated in secret with no
possibility of public oversight. The information presented
has been sourced from leaked documents and the detective
work of committed researchers.

If the TPPA goes ahead,
New Zealand risks major damage to our economy, our
environment, our health, and the ability to shape our own
future.

About the
presenters

Lori Wallach Lori
Wallach has been Director of Public Citizen's Global Trade
Watch since 1995. The Wall Street Journal described
her as “Ralph Nader with a sense of humor”. Lori’s
work translating arcane trade legalese (entire proposed
international commercial agreements) into relevant,
accessible prose has had significant national and
international impact.

Sanya Reid Smith
Sanya Reid Smith is a Legal Advisor and Senior
Researcher at the Third World Network, an influential
international coalition specialising in development issues
and North-South affairs. Sanya travels the world in tireless
advocacy for poor people in developing nations, on topics
including access to medicines, womens' rights and
environmental sustainability.

Jane Kelsey
Jane Kelsey is one of New Zealand's best-known
critical analysts and commentators on trade agreements,
globalisation, and neoliberalism. Jane has taught law at the
University of Auckland since 1979 and is New Zealand's
foremost critical authority on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Agreement.

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